Monday, February 4, 2008

Las Vegas was OK, I say ok because it seemed too short, lol; AND I lost $80. That's like 4 MAC eyeshadows and an MSF! HAHA.

Unfortunately, I was not able to go to the MAC PRO store because we didn't have enough time (as we were also with Jon's family), and I really wanted to go! Not sure if Fafi was being released early at ALL the MAC PRO stores (as someone asked), but I will be attending the release party this Sunday February 10th at Topanga Westfield, so stop by if you can! I was a bit sad I wasn't able to go, but there is a PRO store in Beverly Hills, so I just might make a trip down there this weekend with Anne. :)I ended up just buying: MAC Chromeglass in "Auto de Femme" (reddish dark pink color), MAC Lipglass in "Negligee" (purple with shimmer), MAC Pigment in "Night Light"(gorgeous green), Blush in "Margin", and "Mancatcher" eyeshadow (gorgeous purple, reminds me of "Beautiful Iris"). All that for $66!

"Margin" Blush:

"Mancatcher" Eyeshadow:

Swatches of the "Auto de Femme" (red gloss) and "Negligee":

This is how I packed for Vegas, deliberating what things I need for only 2 days HAHA... (click to ENLARGE)

Oh wow that is a huge display of NYX!!! There isn't any NYX products sold around me so I would have to buy them online but I am skeptical about doing that cause some of the swatch colors on the website are weird looking. Then again I guess I can just search for swatches online that people have done (like you! =]) There's a CCO in the Philadelphia Premium Outlets that just opened up so I'm gonna have to take a trip there and expand my makeup collection hehe. I hope you had a good weekend!

omg that is a HUGE NYX display! Give me directions to where that store is! I wonder how their pricing is like though. Here in nyc it just sucks where one has to hunt for Nyx and only find a shadow here or a blush there. never together sigh...

NYX looks huge when they display it like that. My store does them in rows rather than side by side. A definitely more condensed version, lol. But I see that they even have little color cards (or actual tester products?) under which we don't have. So I have to peel the stickers to swatch 'em ;)

I think Hubbo would have killed me if I brought as much as you did to Vegas, lol. He probably would have said something like "where do you think you're going for TWO DAYS?!" loloollolol.

holy moley!! thats a whole lotta nyx! we have such little stuff here. I only know of one place to get it here and we don't even have half the stuff!! I wanna try out an NYX blush but even we dont carry them :(you must swatch margin :) everyone keeps reccing it for me

hi vanessa, i'm a fairly new reader to your blog and i want to say that i pretty much check your page multiple times a day (lol, no i'm not a stalker). i just really love your in-depth reviews of products and helpful tips. i've only recently gotten "into" makeup and from reading your previous posts, i've been introduced to so many things i had never even heard of before (i.e. everyday minerals, silk naturals, etc). thank you for taking time to do this blog as i find every post very helpful and entertaining as do other people, i bet.

p.s. i don't know if this is a dumb question but is NYX pronounced as N-Y-X or like the basketball team Knicks?

Welcome back Vanessa! Great CCO haul. I love Negligee lipglass and Nightlight pigment and I'm sure you will too! Nightlight is a great liner, if you haven't already tried it as one. I didn't know NYX made a premium brush line! Then again, NYX is hard to find here - only seems to be at this one grocery store chain.

wowzers....ur so lucky! me want some nyx lipsticks! lol and i'm going to be packing for my trip to san francisco in 2 weeks...it's going to be a challenge getting all my makeup in my lil traincase too...

to answer a couple of the questions i saw, i remember pursebuzz had reviewed a few of the nyx pro brushes and had mentioned that the B12 is a great dupe for a 217 brush. also, im pretty sure its pronounced niks rather than n.y.x. since it was named after greek mythology. plus it says on the front page of their site :P

OMG you are SO LUCKY to have that NYX stand there, AND with testers! stupid texas doesn't have any NYX so i gotta order online, so no accurate color swatches :( I wish NYX was available here! that stand just looks like candy in a candy store O.O!!

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